spandanaṃ capalaṃ cittaṃ durakṣyaṃ durnivāraṇam | ṛjuṃ karoti medhāvī iṣu kāra iva tejasā |31,8|
8 (33). When one, having freed the mind of the sanskâra, would put an end to it (birth), the mind being uncertain, changeable, flighty, and hard to control, he must straighten it by application as the fletcher straightens (his arrows) with fire.